How long ago did Adam and Eve live on Earth?

Question

From what I hear it was about 6,000 years ago. Is there anything that proves human beings were alive before then?

Answer 1

People usually demand a beginning, so in the beginning there was a sea of spirit and it filled all of space. The spirit was static, content, and aware of itself. It was a giant resting on the bosom of its thought and contemplating what it is. Then the spirit moved into action. It withdrew into itself until all of space was empty. In the center, the restless mind of the spirit shone. This was the beginning of the individuality of the spirit. This was what the spirit discovered itself to be when it awakened. This spirit was God

The story of Adam and Eve in Genesis is the *symbolic* testimony of humanity's fall from heaven and paradise lost.

6,000 years ago sounds reasonable.

Answer 2

Never.
It was an allegory, a teaching myth.
In Aramaic culture, myths are introduced by having the One, Omnicient, Infinite, Omnipotent God doing things in a limited way as a man would do them,, so the key to seeing that the Adam-and-Eve story is a myth is the part where God 'sits down on a rock' and 'stitches hides together' to make clothes for the two humans being "kicked out of the garden". Do you really think that God has to sit down to affect the hides of an animal? What, is He going to get tired? And why would He make their clothes out of hides? Wouldn't He just say: "Let there be clothing." and there would be perfect clothing for them, and He would say: "It is good."
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It depends on what you consider proof.
Layers of sediment, fossils, Carbon-14 dating, Astrophysics
( planets that are around 6,000 years old generally are either solid without molten cores or molten without solid surfaces;;; and what about stars that can be seen in telescopes now that are more that 6,000 lightyears away?)

Answer 3

Adam & Eve are fictional characters of the Bible. They didn't "live" at all. You might just as well ask about Alice in Wonderland. It might be to your advantage to try a few searches on the subject of Anthropology.

The best evidence known are the skeletal remains of the African human called "Lucy." She is estimated to be in the neighborhood of 2 to 3 million years old.

Humans have been around for quite some time by 4000 BCE, (6000 years ago.) The Hindu religion dates back to that age - it was already established and being practiced.

The story of Adam & Eve didn't hit the book shelves until after mankind was well established on every continent... There are human remains in North America that date back as much as 50,000 years.

Gosh... 6000 years ago isn't spit in the ocean... and neither are Adam & Eve.

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POST SCRIPT to atease: If you wish to ever be recognized as a person of ordinary intelligence, you'd do better to trust more than one source, (or even several sources of the same bias, if that's your case). You are really sounding awfully silly by the statements you tout: speaking as if they've been verified as being scientifically and factually sound. In deed, the two statements you've included here, that mankind's beginning was only 6000 years ago and that Noah's ark was able to hold two of each existing animal species, (assuming, along with appropriate food to last forty days adrift,) are statements so far from being factual that you would likely have a hard time finding agreeable support even from your fellow Christians right here on Yahoo Answers - go ahead and ask them if you don't believe me.
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Answer 4

The story of Adam & Eve is part of the Genesis creation myth. The idea that the world is about 6000 years old is a religious doctrine that some people accept but the scientific evidence is that the world is billions of years old. The human race is much older than 6000 years.

Answer 5

If you that doubt God, Adam, Eve and The Holy Bible, you are not born again like Jesus taught. You are blind and you never will see or know the Truth because you that reject the Holy Spirit of God. That is the One sin that is never forgiven.....................Jesus said, I am the Truth, the way, the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. I didn t live for Jesus for 20 years until my eyes were opened. God has to call you first. if you reject his call (and you know when he talks to you), you will never know the Truth about life and the after life. My father was an Atheist until he died and went into Hell. Yes, a fiery Hell is what he said. He came back to this life and decided that he was wrong and believed in Jesus. Most people want to be their own god. That is why there is so much evil.
Well, based on what I read from some of you, you will never see Heaven. Unless, you rethink your statement that it is all a fairy tale. You that say that are the ones hurting and the ones that are so bitter.

Answer 6

No one knows how long Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden. They only begin to age after they ate the forbidden fruit. They could of very well lived thousands of years before they actually went against God. Adam himself could of been there hundreds of years before God created a helper for him. Personally I think the 6,000 years came about after eating the forbidden fruit. Who's to say how long they were alive before that time. And there is NO proof that anyone existed before Adam and Eve.

Answer 7

The first evidence of human civilisation dates from 10 000 years ago and civilisations don't just emerge overnight, and there are tools manufactured by stone age hunter gatherers from animals that went extinct over 20 000 years ago so yes I think it's quite safe to assume humanity has been around a lot longer than 6000 years.

Answer 8

They lived in the course of the time of the dinosaurs. undergo in concepts that once God created the earth and each little thing on it He created it mature. The chicken got here first to assert. it particularly is why scientists have self belief the international to be billions of years previous. It as created older. purely look on the bushes which grew fruit. purely mature bushes strengthen fruit. How lengthy does it take.....many years yet they grew fruit from the time they were created. also, (sorry I cant undergo in concepts the verse on the prompt ) although the Bible states about the behemoth that swung its tail like a cedar. A cedar tree is an exceedingly great tree. Now placed something like that on an animal. It doesn't stretch the mind's eye very far to have self belief that turned right into a dinosaur.

Answer 9

According to the Bible, ages of people during events beginning with the creation, births, the flood, reigning of kings, on up the death of Jesus, suggest's it was about 4,000 years. It's been a little over 2,000 years since Christ' death, so altogether it's been about 6,000 yrs. that man has been on the earth.
There is also factual proof that Noah's Ark could easily have been able to hold the animals that God wanted Noah to bring two of each aboard. If you care to know sometime.

Answer 10

There are conflicting ideas as to how old the world is and when mankind came into being. I don't think the "when" of things is the important thing. The fact is, we are here and that's what counts right now. I can't prove exactly WHEN it took place but I can prove that it DID take place. We're here aren't we?